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Two follow-up project applications stemming from CHARTS project and the 'Thessalia
Charter'have been submitted by CHARTS project partners and further partners in the first Call of the new Interreg Europe programme, viz:

CHRISTA: Culture & Heritage for Responsible, Innovative and
Sustainable Tourism Actions, led by ECTN - the European Cultural Tourism Network, international association based in Brussels, Belgium,

21st September has become the European Cooperation Day (EC Day). On that day and several days around, hundreds of events all over Europe will showcase results of
European territorial cooperation projects. For the third time already, these events will highlight the benefits of territorial cooperation, also within INTERREG IVC projects. This initiative is
supported by the European Commission and the European Parliament.

Steam railways are a unique
cultural heritage with strong European significance that needs to be preserved and promoted by all stakeholders concerned for cultuarl tourism.

The preservation and promotion of
heritage railways has been pioneered in North Wales which offers the best practice example in Europe and beyond.

In
Pelion exists valuable material of unique artefacts of railway heritage which should becombined into a unified, coordinating "National Railway Heritage Centre" so as to be exhibited
and viewed by visitors.

The production and distribution of video documentaries as well as multilingual cultural-tourist guides and websites play an important role on the promotion and enhancement of the unique cultural heritage of steam railways.

The promotion and enhancement of museum and tourist railways are achieved through
participation in

general and special exhibitions on
tourism, culture and volunteering, by digital and conventional

exhibiting material.

The adoption and dissemination of the 'Riga
Charter' on the preservation of railway heritage by

FEDECRAIL - the European Federatin of Museum and Tourist Railways, National Heritage Railway

Federations and SteamRail.Net EU Culture 2000 project partners, are important steps towards the

protection and promotion of the unique cultural heritage of steam railways.﻿﻿